The Ultimate News Quiz 2008

with quizmasters Andy Marr and Kirsty Young

See what the press and TV programmes have to say about The Ultimate News Quiz.

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Media Guardian Monkey's caption competition

More, now, on the Ultimate News Quiz, in which the elite of British broadcast journalism answered questions posed by none other than Jeremy Paxman. Monkey has already brought you the result - it was won by the ITV News team, led by Katie Derham and Alastair Stewart - now we bring you the visuals. That's right, Monkey's film has just come back from the chemist. Our favourite shot is of quiz host Jeremy Paxman manhandling - we think that 's the right verb - Kate Adie. Nice corduroy jacket, Jeremy. Anyway, there's one thing missing. That's right - a caption. So get thinking. The funniest one gets you your name in lights and the chance to say "I won that caption competition on Monkey, don't you know." Click here to see the picture.

Ultimate News Quiz caption: the winner

And now, back to our caption competition. You remember, the one of Jeremy Paxman with his hands round Kate Adie's ears. Anyway, literally several entries have been pouring in, and the winner is… Alastair Stewart, who also just happened to be on the winning ITV News team. Monkey suggests he should buy a lottery ticket tomorrow, he'll probably win that as well. Anyway, the winning caption, to be read while glancing at this picture, is…“Thinking Woman's Crumpet turns another girl's head”. Boom, and indeed, boom. Alastair, we salute you.

Independent

21 January 2007

Q In which medieval castle did Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes marry?
A If you can answer this, you're up there with the cleverest people in Britain

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Media Guardian Monkey

22 January 2007

Come on!

While Jade Goody's triumph in the unpopularity stakes in Celebrity Big Brother was being celebrated on Friday night, there was another contest gripping TV land. Far away from that deserted studio complex in Elstree, the elite of British broadcast journalism was doing battle in charity event The Ultimate News Quiz.

Teams from all the major TV and radio news programmes fought it out over 10 raucous rounds with none other than Jeremy Paxman asking the questions. At one point Paxo showed his fondness for his Newsnight colleagues by calling them a bunch of halfwits. In fact, it was a bad night for the BBC, whose various teams were outperformed by the news teams of Channel 4, Five and the night's eventual winners, the ITV News team, led by Katie Derham and Alastair Stewart. You can try your hand at some questions from the quiz here.

MediaGuardian.co.uk

Place your bets

Tuesday January 16, 2007

So who is going to win the battle of the news brains at Jeremy Paxman’s Ultimate News Quiz on Friday? Five News's Kirsty Young and John Suchet? Channel 4's Jon Snow and Alex Thompson? Or News 24's Jon Sopel and Ben Brown? Well, Paddy Power reckon it is going to be James Naughtie and Sarah Montague from Radio 4's Today, who they have installed as 3:1 favourites, narrowly ahead of Sky's Kay Burley and Adam Boulton. Spare a thought for GMTV's Fiona Phillips and Andrew Castle, who have unaccountably been made rank outsiders at 25/1. Poor things. We reckon if Eamonn was still on it, they would be 24/1 at least. Still, ITV's team of Alastair Stewart and Katie Derham, at 18/1, don't fare much better. Paddy Power will also donate all bets placed on the market to the charities who will benefit in Friday's quiz—Student's Partnership Worldwide and Learning Through Leisure.

Downloadable Files:

The Independent (21 January 2007) (downloadable pdf)

The Independent (30 October 2006) (downloadable pdf)

The Guardian (30 October 2006) (downloadable image file, 986kB)